Farm Size and Productivity: A Global Look

The relationship between agrarian structure and agricultural productivity in different parts of the world was the focus of a conference Feb. 2-3, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

The conference--Farm Size and Productivity: A Global Look--was a collaboration of USDA's Economic Research Service and Farm Foundation, NFP. Researchers and economists from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the United States discussed new research findings on agricultural development.

Several of the papers presented moved beyond comparisons of land productivity to total factor productivity (TFP). They explored newly available panels of farms to compare not only differences in productivity levels, but also productivity growth by farm size. Other studies examine how specific policies, institutions and behaviors may explain observed productivity differences across farms.